ICMAT, Madrid, Spain.

June 26-30, 2017.

Introduction:

The eleventh edition of the International Summer School on Geometry, Mechanics and Control will be held at ICMAT in Madrid, Spain, in June 26-30, 2017 (New location!).

The school is oriented to young researchers, Ph.D. and postdoctoral students in Mathematics, Physics and Engineering, in particular those interested in focusing their research on geometric control and its applications to mechanical and electrical systems, and optimal control. It is intended to present an up-to-date view of some fundamental issues in these topics and bring to the participants attention some open problems, in particular problems related to applications. This year the courses will be delivered by:

​Abel, Jacobi, Kowalewski and beyond: The purpose of the course is to present a few reflections on the art of solving the equations of motion of a dynamical system, suggested by the reading of the works of Abel, Jacobi, and Kowalewski in this domain. The main ideas will be gathered in the first third of the course, following a historical perspective. Then, in the second third, a new guiding principle will be derived from the above analysis, which will be condensed in the so-called "Kowalewski's conditions". These conditions will be put at work in the last part of the course, in one or two classical and significant examples.

Geometry and symmetry in quantum and classical-quantum dynamics: After a brief review of basic concepts in quantum mechanics, symmetry methods are applied to provide new variational principles for the dynamics of pure and mixed states in different pictures (Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Dirac, Wigner-Moyal, and Ehrenfest). In addition, a hybrid classical-quantum Lie-Poisson bracket is presented for expectation value dynamics, thereby shedding new light on the coupling between quantum and classical degrees of freedom.

Financial Support:

A limited number of scholarships for PhD students, advanced undergraduate students, and post-docs, will be provided by the organizers in order to partially cover the travel and/or lodging expenses.

If you want to apply for a scholarship, please send your CV including names for recommendation letters (and a transcript in case you are an undegraduate student) to 11gmcschoolicmat.es, no later than April 30, 2017.

Lodging reservation:

Rooms will be booked at IES Hotel Escuela nearby the campus, where the conference venue is located.

The Hotel Escuela is located around 15 km away from Madrid Airport. You can either take a taxi (around 30 euros) or

Take the subway (LINE 8) to Colombia, change to line 9 to PLAZA CASTILLA. There, go to the bus station, Intercambiador Plaza Castilla, the hotel can be reached by the buses 712, 713, 714 and 716. Ask the driver for the bus stop to Hotel Escuela.

From terminal 4 you can also take the local train (Cercanías) to Chamartín, change to line C8 to Ramón y Cajal (1 stop), walk to Calle San Modesto (Fte Hnos Ramón y Cajal stop) to get the bus 716.

Once you get off the bus at ACCESO M-607 S/N stop, you must walk for 5-10 minutes to get to the hotel.

Dinner will be provided at 20:30 from Sunday to Thursday and breakfast from 7:30, 3 minutes walking distance from the hotel, in the canteen.

We will provide a bus service from the hotel to the conference venue from Monday to Friday and return trip from Monday to Thursday. Friday you must check out before the conference and bring the luggage with you to the bus.

Participants:

(Updated on June 19, 2017)

Name

Affiliation

Country

Sergio Álvarez

Universidad de Burgos

Spain

Philip Arathoon

University of Manchester

UK

María Barbero Liñán

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid-ICMAT

Spain

Ángel Ballesteros

Universidad de Burgos

Spain

Ayhtami Bethencourt de León

Imperial College London

UK

Marina Delgado

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Spain

Marta Farré Puiggalí

ICMAT

Spain

Nader Ganaba

Imperial College London

UK

Iván Gutiérrez Sagredo

Universidad de Burgos

Spain

David Iglesias Ponte

Universidad de La Laguna

Spain

Víctor Manuel Jiménez Morales

ICMAT

Spain

Erwin Luesink

University of Twente

The Netherlands

Franco Magri

Università degli Studi de Milano-Bicocca

Italy

Juan Carlos Marrero

Universidad de La Laguna

Spain

David Martín de Diego

ICMAT

Spain

Antonio Michele Miti

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Italy

Peter Olver

University of Minnesota

USA

Javiert Orts

Universidad de Valencia

Spain

Edith Padrón

Universidad de La Laguna

Spain

Zohreh Ravanpak

IMPAN

Poland

Ana Rojo-Echeburúa

University of Kent

UK

Nicola Sansonetto

University of Verona

Italy

Leonardo Santilli

University of Valencia UVEG

Spain

Cristina Sardón

ICMAT

Spain

So Takao

Imperial College London

UK

Cesare Tronci

University of Surrey

UK

Roberto Vega Álvarez

Universidad de La Laguna

Spain

Marcin Zajac

University of Warsaw

Poland

Marta Zoppello

Univesità degli studi di Padova

Italy

Committees:

Organizing Committee

María Barbero Liñán (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid-ICMAT, Spain)

David Iglesias Ponte (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)

David Martín de Diego (Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM), Spain)